curation

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English curacioun, curacion, from Old French curacion, from Latin cūrātiō.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /kjəˈɹeɪʃən/, /kjʊˈɹeɪʃən/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən
  • Hyphenation: cu‧ra‧tion

Noun[edit]

curation (countable and uncountable, plural curations)

  1. The act of curating, of organizing and maintaining a collection of artworks or artifacts.
  2. (archaic) The act of curing or healing.
  3. (databases) The manual updating of information in a database.
    • 2009, David Edwards, Jason Stajich, David Hansen, Bioinformatics: Tools and Applications:
      Manual database curation involves the following steps: (1) finding articles of interest; (2) finding and extracting facts (relations, events, associations, etc.) relevant to the database focus; and (3) converting extracted information into predefined standardized form.

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Noun[edit]

curation f (plural curations)

  1. curation; curing; healing
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